Gibson's Steps: Serravallian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Cetotheriidae
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"Cetotheriidae" indet.
(Brandt 1872)
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1 specimen | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Victoria |
| Coordinates: | 38.7° South, 143.1° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 47.0° South, 141.5° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Serravallian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Serravallian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 13.82000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Port Campbell Limestone | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Bairnsdalian, zone N10 |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine,yellow "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: yellow-grey, fine-grained calcarenite | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Associated major elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 51386 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-06-03 05:59:46 | Last modified: | 2006-01-30 13:16:53 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-06-03 05:59:46 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13672. | E. M. G. Fitzgerald. 2004. A review of the Tertiary fossil Cetacea (Mammalia) localities in Australia. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 61(2):183-208 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |